QuesTec's TennisProView To Close Out
1999 Tennis Season in Europe
Technology
Scheduled for EuroCard Open, Sparkassen Cup and
return appearance at ATP Tour World Championship
Deer
Park, N.Y. Thursday, October 7, 1999 - Long
Island-based QuesTec Imaging, Inc. (NASD-BB:
QSTI) announces the use of the company's
TennisProView(TM) virtual replay system for two
upcoming ATP Tour events and one WTA Tour event.
QuesTec and Live Motion Company (LMC) of
Wiesbaden, Germany will produce TennisProView for
German state-owned ZDF ( www.zdf.de ) and ARD ( www.ard.de ) television networks.
These events will bring QuesTec's total coverage
of professional tennis for the 1999 season to 12
tournaments, which have included 9 ATP, 2 WTA and
1 Grand Slam event.
TennisProView will be featured during ATP's
Eurocard-Open ( www.eurocard-open.de ) tournament in Stuttgart,
Germany, October 25 - 31, and will be aired by
both ZDF and ARD. TennisProView will also be
featured during ZDF's and ARD's coverage of the
WTA's Sparkassen Cup International Grand Prix
tournament in Leipzig, Germany, November 1 - 7.
QuesTec will close out the 1999 season with a
return to the ATP World Championship in Hannover,
Germany for ZDF television November 22 - 28.
TennisProView is a real-time video- and
computer-based tracking and scoring system that
creates virtual replays for television and a
behind-the-scenes analysis tool for commentators.
TennisProView will be available for all
pre-match, match and post-match coverage of
center court action. Tennis fans will be treated
to a unique perspective of different types of
serves, match serve patterns, Aces and close line
calls.
These tournaments will be QuesTec's tenth,
eleventh and twelve televised productions
featuring TennisProView during the 1999 season,
of which six were produced in Europe. QuesTec
debuted TennisProView at the 1998 ATP World
Championship, Hannover, Germany. Since its debut,
TennisProView has been featured during the Sybase
Open, Kroger/St. Jude, Franklin Templeton, Lipton
Championship, Family Circle Cup, French Open,
Gerry Weber Open, Mercedes Cup Stuttgart and the
Hamlet Cup.
Ares Donzelli, tennis announcer for ZDF German
Television, said: "TennisProView is truly
revolutionary for tennis broadcasting. Its
features allow us to present our audience with
fast representations of key events during the
match. TennisProView's ability to instantly
display players' serves and strategies allows us
to better inform our viewers."
QuesTec's TennisProView technology is the only
interactive real-time, virtual replay system
available for live televised tennis.
TennisProView instantly captures, quantifies, and
displays the speed, path and location of serves.
QuesTec's TennisProView technology is currently
being marketed to television networks and
sponsors as an analysis tool for commentators and
an instant virtual replay system for televised
tennis.
"We are extremely pleased with our recent
expansion into Europe", stated Edward
Plumacher, founder of QuesTec. "Our presence
this year in France and Germany has had
significant impact on our European branding of
QuesTec. We are gearing up for a strong and
expanded role in European television and Internet
technology enablement. QuesTec is aggressively
pursuing opportunities in the U.K., and we have
instituted development plans for products
tailored to the specific demands of European
sports fans. The European arena is proving to be
a very lucrative market with huge potential for
QuesTec technology and our eSports(TM) enabled
products."
QuesTec provides real-time motion capture, replay
and analysis products for sports entertainment,
display media, business and industry. The company
develops real-time virtual replays and
eSports(TM) technology for mainstream
professional sports and entertainment. QuesTec's
technology enablement offers unique content and
visualization for the convergence of today's
emerging digital media.
For more information on QuesTec Imaging, Inc.
contact the company at (516) 243-1880 or visit http://www.questec.com
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